Freedom and Responsibility

Freedom

byMs.Reinze Laforteza Vito

RESPONSIBILITY&

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the

freedom to make mistakes

-Mahatma Gandhi

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What does FREEDOM means to you?

There are plenty definitions of FREEDOM

Freewill

Liberty

Rights

Freedom of Choice

Freedom of Speech

Autonomy

FREEDOM

/frēdəm/

The power or right

to act, speak, or

think as one wants

without hindrance

or restraint.

Self Freedom

Internal Freedo

m

TYPES OF

FREEDOM

Spiritual

Freedom

Internal Freedom

• The first and most basic type of freedom is embodied by the chap in jail.

•  is of the greatest personal intimacy and secretiveness, indeed it is the hidden core of our being and unknowable by others.

• some people call this moral freedom. But this kind of freedom is not in itself moral.

Self Freedom

•  in the sense of learning how to escape the ever-present danger of enslavement by our own passions and ignorance.

• practice of self-control, restraint, and balance to achieve the admired master-slave relationship of soul over body

• “to find my self”

External Freedom

• This refers to the normal and common freedoms expected in daily life, in most countries, throughout history.

• Sometimes called “freedom from...”

• it implies immunity from undue interference by authority, especially by government. 

Political Freedom

• Sometimes called “freedom to...”

•  has to do with establishing certain rights of action and limits to government power that help to guarantee the practice of those rights. 

• the right to speak freely, to associate with people of your choice, to own property, to worship.

Collective Freedom• Sometimes called

“freedom for…”• based on an ideology of

collective unity that prescribes distinct social and moral values and objectives for all.

• example, often under this ideal of freedom the state is allowed to control the production of all basic citizen needs, thus giving them freedom-from-want.

Spiritual Freedom• In its purest form this type

of freedom comes from striving for a complete identification with God to arrive at a condition of soul that transcends the confusion and disharmony of the self and the material world.

• For this type, strict control if not denial of the allurements of the body leads to complete freedom of the spirit.

With great power comes great responsibility

-Spiderman

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What does RESPONSIBILITY means to you?

RESPONSIBILITY

re·spon·si·bil·i·ty

A duty or obligation to

satisfactorily perform or

complete a task (assigned by

someone, or created by

one's own promise or

circumstances) that one

must fulfill, and which has a

consequent

penalty for failure.

MORALLEGAL

RESPONSIBILITY CONTEXT

• what can be established in a court on the basis of evidence.

• Subject to additional legal criteria

• what the person actually did (truth, discovery)

• Subject to further moral criteria

MORALLEGAL

RESPONSIBILITY CONTEXT

RESPONSIBILITY AND JUSTICE

“Goods” • The traditional

concern of distributive justice.

• e.g. wealth, income, liberty, rights, happiness.

“Bads” • The traditional

concern of theories of punishment (“retributive justice”)

• poverty, deprivation, constraint, ill-treatment, misery

A distinction between the objects of justice:

RESPONSIBILITY AND JUSTICE

• Deserving a “good” need not entail responsibility (mugging victim deserves compensation; patient deserves medical care; everyone deserves respect; even a criminal deserves a fair trial)

• Deserving a “bad” does seem to require responsibility (as in punishment)

An asymmetry in desert:

Four Kinds of Responsibility

Role ResponsibilityThe duties one has for doing various things which come with occupying a certain role in society

Causal ResponsibilityWhat caused something to happen

Liability ResponsibilityWho is liable for something’s happening

Capacity ResponsibilityThe capacity of a person to be held liability responsible for their actions

The Relata of Responsibility

The Agent of Responsibility

The Object of Responsibility

The Party the Agent is

Responsible to

Responsibility is the price of freedom

-Elbert Hubbard

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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING !

Citation:http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/wpollard/responsibility.pdfhttp://www.williamgairdner.com/journal/2006/7/4/six-kinds-of-freedom.html